Machine for cutting baled hay



PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

G. E. RICHMOND. MACHINE PON CUTTING BALND HAY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1907.

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' G..` E. RICHMOND. MACHINE POR CUTTING BALED HAY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1907.

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629i h1 mozo www .110 being thus straightened out along the rods 11 any 25 naled for rotation adjacent the feed rollers 3 0'ioller 31 and the roller 33 is journaled forI '55 to t e pneumatic conveyer 4l. The conterial is then straightened out and a ain passed through the cutting ,apparatus as above described .'Haviiig described my invention l what I claim as new anddesire tosecure by Letters- 70 Patent is:- l

'LA machine as described frame, a cutter mounted thereon, a conveyer and combingmechanism for delivering nia- 4 terial to the cutter, a bale slicing mechanism -75 for delivering material to the conveyer and combing mechanism an vnieans for operat- 111g the Several parts.l f

2. A machinev as described comprisingl'a frame, a cutter mounted thereon, a conveyer 80 and combing mechanism for delivering material to the cutter, a" bale slicing mechanism for deliveringv material to the conveyer and l combing mechanism, a screen adapted to rebale are de osited from theslici'ng apparatus upon the cliiains 10 and are caught up by the teeth 14 of the rods thereof and carried imder the chains 18. As the chains 18 are moving the strands of hay and bringr the sameintoparallel relation, or substantially so lying in alinement with the longitudinal axisof thel conveying apparatus. Asthe material is oreign objects such as stone, bits of wire 'or metal'will fall through the spaces between said rods into the bottom of the machine, While the leaves and finer particles-ot hay which Would fall through the spaces between the rods 11 will be operated u on by a blast of air from the fan 2S located blelow the-conveyer including said rods, and carried toward the cuttin apparatus. 20 The'fee rollers 29 are journaled for rotaturning the material rejected by the screen to the combing mechanism, and means for operating the several arts. v

machine as escribed 'comprising a frame, a cutting mechanism'including a feed 90 rial frein/the teeth and rods carried bythe said belts'. Therollers 30 and 31 are jour- 29. The roller 1s provided with a rou hf ened-or corrugated periphery whilethe ro er 31 is provided with.. a smooth periphery. isms, a conveyer and combing mechanism for delivering material 'to' the feed-mechanism, a.

bale slicing mechanism for delivering ma?l 95 terial to the conveyer and combing mechanism, and means for operating the several parts.

4. A machine as described comprising a frame, a bale s 'cing mechanism mounted 100 thereon, .a foraminous conveyer located under the 'slicing mechanism,v a combing mechanism coperating with said conveyer,

' means for forcing a blast of air under-'the conveyer, a cuttin mechanism located at the 105 elivery ends o the conveyer and combing mechanisms, and means vfor operating the several parts.

5.A machine as -describedcomprising a frame, a cutting mechanism mounted there- 110 on, conveyer and combing .mechanisms which move at different rates of speed'for delivering material to the cutting mechanism,

a bale slicing mechanism for delivering material to the conveyer and combing mechan- 115 isms, and means ,for operating theseveral parts.

6. A machine as described comprisin a fraine, a cutting mechanism mounted thereon, a conveyer for delivering material to the 120 4 rotation above the said cutter bar and in close proximity to the sainea The roller 33 is provided with a corrugated or roughei'ied'pe'-` riphery. A rotating cutter 34 is adapted to 35 coperatewith the cutter bar- 32 in cutting e concave 35 is located below the cutter bar-32 and is provided with the teeth or blades 36 which coperate with the cutter 34 in further reducing or macerating the material after it falls from the cutter bar 32. From the cutting apparatus the material falls upon the inclined shaker 37 from which it passes into the upper end of the inclined cylindrical rotating screen 38.

The delec'tor late 39 is provided between the fan 28 and t c screen 38 for the purpose ofcarrying the material operated upon by the blast of the fan up to the feed rollers and also for sup lying suiiicient upward air current at the eed rollers to hold the material .passing through the feed rollers in proper` osition. he screw conveyer 40 is located eloW the screenesifter 38 and extends back veyer 41 is provided with a spout 42. The` material that sifts through the screen 38 is carried by the screw-conveyer 40 to the with said c onveyer and moving at a greater pneumatic conveyer 41 which forces it rate of speed, `a bale slicing mechanism for ceive material from the cutter, means for re'- 85 through the spout 42 to any desired point. delivering material to the conveyer, and 125 The material which does not pass through the means for operating the several parts.

mesh' of the screen 38 falls from the lower end 7. A machine as .described comprising a thereof and is taken up by the endless conframe, a cutting mechanism mounted thereveyer 43 and carried up and deposited upon "on, a c onveyer and 'combing mechanism for j' sti-,the upper sides of the rods 19. TA ma, del veringmaterial to the cutting mechan- .1 -3o ism, a baie cng mchnsm 01 devering my Own, have hereto afxd my' sgmfmf v materal to the conveye and wmbillg mech* in the .presence of two Witnesses.

mism and having; mpaing elements adapt ed to @any the 'bee and seuorm cutters 5 adapted 'bo dmv@ the ble, .and means o'f '\,7Vtx1essesz opeat'mg the sevem arts. L. N. MLLS,

n tstmny that daim fthe foegoing as @mm3 E. Mmmm in F M. E. THUMSON. 

